Exploratory Analysis: Understanding Global Healthcare Inequalities by Country Debt

Overview

This is a brief report regarding the influence of international debts over government’ health spending and how is that negatively influence local citizens’ health. This page compares the health spending and health situation between countries all over the world and shows the correlation between debt and health spending per capital.

Summary Table

## # A tibble: 203 × 5
## # Groups:   Country [203]
##    Country             health_perc_year health_perc_expenditure JDC_ri…¹ net_c…²
##    <chr>                          <int>                   <dbl> <chr>      <int>
##  1 Afghanistan                     2019                    3.87 No risk…      37
##  2 Africa                          2019                    6.86 <NA>          NA
##  3 Albania                         2018                    9.8  In debt…     -59
##  4 Algeria                         2019                   10.7  No risk…      24
##  5 Americas                        2019                   14.0  <NA>          NA
##  6 Andorra                         2019                   16.5  <NA>          NA
##  7 Angola                          2019                    5.43 In debt…     -56
##  8 Antigua and Barbuda             2019                   11.3  <NA>         -95
##  9 Argentina                       2019                   15.5  In debt…      31
## 10 Armenia                         2019                    5.67 In debt…     -81
## # … with 193 more rows, and abbreviated variable names ¹​JDC_risk_2021,
## #   ²​net_creditor_debtor_2020

table

Chart 1: Maps

Government Heath Expenditure per capital and Health Spending as a Share of Total Government Expenditure

To compare the each countries’ govenment health spending per capital, this is a global map showing the health spending in 2019.

Chart 2: Scatter Plot

Government Debt and Health Spending

This chart is a scatter plot showing the relationship between a country’s government debt and government health spending. Each point represents a country. On the x-axis is the a numeric indicator for net creditor(+) or debtor(-) of that country from 2020. On the y-axis is the health spending as a percent of total government expenditure. This number is taken form the most-recent year of data collection, which most are from 2019 with a few from 2018. The color of each point tells you what the level of debt risk calculated by the Jubilee Debt Campaign. Hover over a point for more specific statistical information. The line shows a positive trend, with a dip where countries are neither a very far into debt or are large creditors.

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